Name: The Big Lift
Released: 1950-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers

Movie · Drama · War & Military

During the 1948 Berlin Airlift, as British and American forces break a Russian blockade of the divided German city, a pair of American soldiers fall in love with local women against a backdrop of increasing Cold War tensions. Ground control specialist Hank Kowalski (Paul Douglas) finds happiness with the idealistic Gerda (Bruni Löbel), but, when pilot Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift) falls for the beautiful, mysterious Frederica (Cornell Borchers), his friends question her motives.

1950 · 1h 59m

Starring Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers

Director George Seaton

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Montgomery Clift

Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
Paul Douglas

MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski
Cornell Borchers

Frederica Burkhardt
Bruni Löbel

Gerda
O.E. Hasse

Stieber
Jan Hendriks

Actor
Walter Gross

Zigarettenschnorrer
Harold Dyrenforth

Actor
George Seaton

Director
William Perlberg

Producer
George Seaton

Writer

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During the 1948 Berlin Airlift, as British and American forces break a Russian blockade of the divided German city, a pair of American soldiers fall in love with local women against a backdrop of increasing Cold War tensions. Ground control specialist Hank Kowalski (Paul Douglas) finds happiness with the idealistic Gerda (Bruni Löbel), but, when pilot Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift) falls for the beautiful, mysterious Frederica (Cornell Borchers), his friends question her motives.

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